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Another thing is that the grid power is 3 phase. Your wall outlets are single phase or, at best two phase (for your dryer and oven). So, even if all other con
by robotrout 17y ago
Another thing is that the grid power is 3 phase. Your wall outlets are single phase or, at best two phase (for your dryer and oven). So, even if all other considerations were ignored, you're feeding unbalanced power back onto the grid, by not adding power to all three phases.
- coryrc 17y ago1. Nearly every house in the US is on a single 240V phase with a center-tap to create 120V. Any load is already unbalancing the three-phase transmission lines. Luckily, throwing a similar number of houses on each phase balances out. But if all the houses on one phase turned on their electric heaters and ovens and the houses on the other phases turned off everything, you'd have one unbalanced transformer, but the grid would still remain within tolerance. Now, if you picked a good 10,000 houses all on a single phase spread across a service area, maybe you'd begin to have a detectable problem. 2. Your outlets are spread semi-randomly around to each half, so if you only plugged things in one half, you could only draw half the rated power before blowing the breaker. So it's not a problem, as you seem to imply.
- robotrout 17y ago1. I'd be interested in where your number of 10,000 houses comes from. 2. The breakers I was referring to were your circuit breakers in your breaker box. My concern being with their ability to do their assigned task of protection.